AMU teachers and research scholars attend a national conference
ALIGARH : A group of faculty members and research scholars from the Department of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University, under the leadership of Prof Mohammad Jahangeer Warsi, Chairman of the department, attended the 9th All India Conference of Linguistics and Folklore on “Mother Tongue, Multilingualism and National Education Policy-2020”, organized by the Department of Linguistics and Punjabi Lexicography, Punjabi University, Patiala, in collaboration with Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, Punjabi Linguistics Association, Patiala, North Regional Language Centre, Patiala. Prof. Arvind, Vice Chancellor, Punjabi University, Patiala inaugurated the conference.
Delivering the inaugural address on “Mother tongue education and the Relevance of NEP-2020”, Prof. Mohammad Jahangeer Warsi said lexicography is an important part of NEP-2020 and the services of the Department of Linguistics and Punjabi Lexicography, Punjabi University, cannot be ignored when the Government of India intends to compile the dictionaries for local and regional languages.
He discussed how the multilingual set up of India is encroached upon by monolingual practice, dominated by English, as the colonial minds helped in the dominance of English.
Dr. Pallav Vishnu, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics delivered the Duni Chandra Memorial Lecture on “Indian Grammatical Tradition” and also presented a paper on “Language and Social Variation: A Need Based Analysis of Mother Tongue Teaching with Special reference to Speech Accommodation”. Further, Dr. Noman Tahir, a guest faculty in the Department of Linguistics presented a paper on “A syntactic Study of Kakrala Urdu”.
A number of research scholars also presented papers during the various sessions of the conference. Soumya Abidi and Uzma Afreen presented a joint paper on “Covid-19 Pandemic: A Study of Language Use at Social, Psychological and Linguistic Level”, while Mahbub Zahidi, presented a paper on “Continuing Professional Development (CPD) on Senior Secondary English Language Teachers’ Performance at Aligarh Muslim University: A Critical Analysis”.
Neela Parvej and Syed Talha jointly presented a paper on “Digital folklore: exploring the role of language through new media”, while Yasir Hassan Ahmed Al-Qudimi, research scholar and Prof. Shabana Hameed presented a joint paper on “The Change in Perspective of English Learning after Implementing blended learning Among Yemeni EFL Students”.
Ifrah Zaman presented her talk on “Socio-descriptive study of the Lakhminiavi dialect”.